Mr Opinionated,

But it's a weapon that China can use too. There are no winners from a trade war. And as the ABC's Alan Kohler suggests, what if China decides to REDUCE tariffs on goods from countries other than the US ? And, one could add, impose tariffs on Walmart goods produced in China ?

And we'll all pay.

Joe

Do you really think that Trump isn't in the business of replacing 'their' Swamp with his own ?

Joe

No Joe I don't think he has a swamp, other than the deplorables in the mid USA street.

Dear Loudmouth,

It's possible that China could do that. Trump could retaliate by putting pressure on the EU, etc., to offset that. It's still part of the trade war but escalating it beyond a tit for tat between the US and China.

Though would you agree that Trump is trying to ruin China as part of his Make America Great Again program?

Also if they go down the path of directly involving others in their feud I reckon it could end up in a real war just the way similar circumstances between the US and Japan resulted in the Pacific War of 1941-45.

Hasbeen,

Of course he does, every politician has one in waiting. And after all, he claims to be a 'people-person', a wheeler-dealer, a businessman (even a bankrupt one, many times over, but that's the US system). He picks and chooses his Secretaries on the basis of his friendships, so I'm sure he's busy staffing the bureaucracy with his own associates. And de-staffing those who displease him.

He's not unique, of course: every Democrat candidate has his Swamp-in-waiting.

Joe

World trade do we remember a past America putting UNFAIR tariffs on our Lamb
Nearly crippled that trade
As said the EU,s once huge stock pile of food supported by unfair subsidy's to growers
The impacts of the EU dumping [at below costs] it on the open market
If no trade tariffs existed how many of us know this country's rural products would compete on the open market to such an extent we may not be able to grow enough to fill the orders
Yes America has a big ,huge, trade deficit with China
Other country's too
Some of us understand it is not food, they share for the most part our ability to produce it at the needed price
They like Australia, cannot compete in Manufacturing
Solve that problem? only by reducing the standard of living by huge margins for most of us
Fact is the man who says he knows the art of the deal in fact would not understand the above, Trump is a senile old man, self promoting but senile and a danger to us all

Of course he does, every politician has one in waiting
Loudmouth,
Yes, but Trump isn't a politician, he's a businessman who knows that anything the politicians have ever done is flawed.
He's unpopular because he's getting under their skin & is a real threat to them & not the Nation.
It's time more non-politicians started to show the entrenched bureaucrats the door !